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The far-right Freedom Party sees the advance of LGBTQ rights in Austria as an existential threat to children and the nuclear family
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Boomtown
The Social Democratic Party and NEOS will govern Vienna together for a second term, branding themselves the Aufschwungskoalition
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Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Car Owners?
Austria's new government has targeted environmental subsidies in cutting €6.4 billion from the budget in 2025
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Leitln, Wir Ham Den Schas Gewonnen
Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026: a boon for whichever city it is held in, if not the government and public broadcaster that has to…
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Controlled Freedom: Allied Forces in Vienna
A new exhibition at the Wien Museum examines the Allies' postwar occupation of Vienna and its impact on the cultural realm in the context of the Cold…
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Accounting For The Past
Austria's new government plans to carry out a feasibility study into establishing the country's first Holocaust museum
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City Life
Vienna will hold state and local elections this weekend which are expected to reaffirm the Social Democratic Party's dominant position in Viennese…
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Comfort Blanket
Former environment minister Leonore Gewessler looks set to be crowned the Greens' next leader, avoiding an open debate over the party's future
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